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OUP is publishing a new book on Republicanism.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Republicanism is a powerful
resource for emancipatory struggles against domination. Its commitment to
popular sovereignty subverts justifications of authority, locating power in the
hands of the citizenry who hold the capacity to create, transform, and maintain
their political institutions. Republicanism's conception of freedom rejects
social, political, and economic structures subordinating citizens to any uncontrolled
power - from capitalism and wage-labour to patriarchy and imperialism. It views
any such domination as inimical to republican freedom. Moreover, it combines a
revolutionary commitment to overturning despotic and tyrannical regimes with
the creation of political and economic institutions that realise the
sovereignty of all citizens, institutions that are resilient to threats of
oligarchical control. This volume is dedicated to retrieving and developing
this radical potential, challenging the more conventional moderate conceptions
of republicanism. It brings together scholars at the forefront of tracing this
radical heritage of the republican tradition, and developing arguments, texts,
and practices into a critical and emancipatory body of political and social
thought. The volume spans historical discussions of the English Levellers,
French and Ottoman revolutionaries, and American abolitionists and trade
unionists; explorations of the radical republican aspects of the thought of
Machiavelli, Marx, and Rousseau; and theoretical examinations of social
domination and popular constitutionalism. It will appeal to political
theorists, historians of political thought, and political activists interested
in how republicanism provides a robust and successful radical transformation to
existing social and political orders.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Edited by Bruno Leipold,
Fellow in Political Theory, London School of Economics, Karma Nabulsi,
Fellow and Tutor in Politics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and Stuart
White, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Associate Professor of Politics, Jesus
College, University of Oxford
Bruno Leipold is a Fellow in
Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He
completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford and has held postdoctoral
positions at the European University Institute and the Justitia Amplificata
Centre for Advanced Studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Free
University of Berlin.
Karma Nabulsi is Fellow and Tutor
in Politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She writes and lectures on
18th and 19th century republicanism, revolutions, and democracy, as well as on
Palestine, especially Palestinian refugees.
Stuart White is Fellow in
Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, having formerly taught in the Department of
Political Science, M.I.T. His research is focused on democracy, republican
values, and the economy, with related interests in both social policy and the
political process. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003).
He blogs occasionally at openDemocracy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Radical
Republicanism and Popular Sovereignty, Bruno Leipold, Karma Nabulsi, and Stuart
White
I. DOMINATION: SOCIAL AND
STRUCTURAL
1: From Neorepublicanism to
Critical Republicanism, Dorothea Gãdeke
2: A Radical Revolution in
Thought: Frederick Douglass on the Slave's Perspective on Republican Freedom,
Alan Coffee
II. POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM
3: Republicanism, Virtuous and
Corrupt: Social Conflict, Political Leadership and Constitutional Reform in
Machiavelli's Florentine Histories, John P. McCormick
4: Citizens' Assemblies and
Republican Democracy, Stuart White
III. MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE
5: Popular Resistance and the
Idea of Rights, Guy Aitchison
6: Two Traditions of Radical
Democracy from the 1830 Revolution, Karma Nabulsi
IV. SOCIALISM AND LABOUR
7: Solidarity and Civic Virtue:
Labour Republicanism and the Politics of Emancipation in Nineteenth Century
America, Alex Gourevitch
8: Marx's Social Republic:
Radical Republicanism and the Political Institutions of Socialism, Bruno
Leipold
V. HISTORIAL TRAJECTORIES
9: The Intellectual Origins of
Turkish Radical Republicanism, Banu Turnaoglu
10: The Utopian Imagination:
Radical Republican Traditions in France, from the Enlightenment to the French
Communists, Sudhir Hazareesingh
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